# Top 35 Payments Angel Investors in Colombia in June 2026 ## Asif Ramji - Type: Angel - Location: Greater Atlanta Area, Georgia, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, FinTech, Payments Asif Ramji, Paymetric’s President and Chief Executive Officer, is a seasoned payments executive, with over 15 years experience directing companies within the software and payment transaction processing industries.Most recently, Ramji served as Chief Revenue Officer for Paymetric and led ten consecutive quarters of double-digit revenue growth.Ramji joined Paymetric in 2009 and was responsible for sales, marketing, business development and product strategy.Prior to joining Paymetric, Ramji was Senior Vice President and GM for the Royal Bank of Scotland Group’s RBS WorldPay Card Services and ATM Divisions. The Royal Bank of Scotland Group is one of the largest payment transaction processors in the world and manages the largest off-premise ATM transaction processing businesses in North America. Ramji was responsible for the strategic double-digit growth of the respective divisions.Mr. Ramji has also held other positions including, North American Vice President of Sales with Ernex, the prepaid and loyalty card division of Moneris Solutions Corporation, a Bank of Montreal-Royal Bank of Canada joint venture, and one of North America’s largest electronic transaction processors. Ramji was instrumental in leading the growth of Ernex which led to the acquisition by Moneris Solutions Corporation.Ramji also successfully led the unprecedented growth of GiftCertificates.ca, a premier consumer and employee incentive marketing business and was CEO and founder of eCardSolution Inc.Ramji commenced his formal business education at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada and holds an MTIS certification from the Stanford Graduate School of Business in Leading Teams for Innovation and Success. Ramji also attended Harvard Business School in Boston, Massachusetts and holds an executive leadership certification on Strategic Negotiation. ## Don Stockwell - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Cryptocurrency Don Stockwell serves as Global Marketing Specialist at Costa Vida Presenta. ## Brian Requarth - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Real Estate, Software, SaaS Brian Requarth co-founded Viva Real and was the company's CEO from 2009 to July 2016 when he became Chairman. The company bootstrapped its operation and eventually raised over $74 million USD. Under his management, the team scaled to over 500 team members and acquired suahouse, a leading real estate CRM provider serving home builders and datacompany Geo Imovel.He led merger negotiations with ZAP Imóveis (owned by Grupo Globo, Latin America’s largest media company). The deal closed in December 2017. Requarth is Chairman of the combined company, Grupo ZAP.In March 2020, Grupo ZAP signed a deal to be acquired by OLX Brasil for R$2.9bn. The deal was approved by anti-trust authorities in Brazil and the transaction closed October 30, 2020.As an angel investor Requarth has invested in 40+ tech startups in Brazil and Latin America and he has recently started Latitud, a new project focused on helping early stage founders build iconic companies in Brazil and Latin America. ## Paul Bragiel - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, SaaS, Gaming Paul Bragiel is the Managing Partner of Bragiel Brothers. He previously worked at the United Republic of Tanzania as an Advisor. Paul Bragiel attended the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. ## Ricardo Weder - Type: Angel - Location: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments Ricardo Weder is the co-founder and CEO of Jüsto. Prior to co-founding Jüsto, he served as the president of Cabify. Ricardo holds an MBA from Mannheim Business School. ## Maria Echeverri Gomez - Type: Angel - Location: Bogotá, Distrito Especial, Colombia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: FinTech, Payments, Security Maria Echeverri Gomez is the Founder at Muni Tienda. She attended Stanford University Graduate School of Business. ## Cornelius Boersch - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Mobile, FinTech, Mobile Payments Cornelius Boersch ## Andrew Chang - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: FinTech, Payments, Financial Services Andrew Chang currently works as an Independent Director for Bitfarms. He previously worked at projectBASTA as a Board Member and Governance Committee Chair. Andrew Chang attended NYU Stern School of Business. ## Jeremy Brown - Type: Angel - Location: Bethesda, Maryland, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Financial Services, Billing, Payments Jeremy Brown was the President of the Small Business Financing Association and is currently working in KredFeed as Strategic Advisor. ## Peter Strove - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: FinTech, Cryptocurrency, Human Resources Peter Strove is the founder of Velocity Partners. ## Michael Wear - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: FinTech, Cryptocurrency, Human Resources Cofounder and CEO @ Blankfactor ## Matt Bryson - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: FinTech, Cryptocurrency, Human Resources Chief Financial Officer @ Madwire Board Member, President and CFO @ Blankfactor ## Luis-Daniel Alegria - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: FinTech, Cryptocurrency, Human Resources Chief Product Officer @ Evino ## Juan Camilo Chaves Zuluaga - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: FinTech, Cryptocurrency, Human Resources Juan Camilo Chaves Zuluaga is the President Latam and USA Pluxee of Pluxee. Juan previously worked at Sodexo as a President Latin America Sodexo BRS. ## Samer Saab - Type: Angel - Location: Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Financial Services, Software, Credit Cards Founder at Wala. ## Sebastian Ruales - Type: Angel - Location: Bogotá, Distrito Especial, Colombia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed - Focus: FinTech, Software, E-Commerce Sebastian is Co-Founder and CEO of Bia.Energy, company aiming to empower LatAm with cheap, sustainable and smart energy, through a consumer centric technology platform.He is founding team member of LatAm´s SuperApp Rappi -YC 16’, Sequoia, SoftBank, DST, T.RowePrice - Where he built from scratch and developed the Monetization model of the company,Business Development and New Businesses. He additionally served as an independent consultant to several StartUps in the region, advising on product and commercial strategy. He is advisor to 8VC, Managing Partner and Co-founder of Opera Ventures, and VP of MatterScale Ventures. He is also Speaker -Including TEDTalks. Prior to tech and VC, he had marketing and commercial strategy roles in the CPG industry, where he worked for L´Oreal, Quala and Johnson & Johnson.Sebastian has an MBA from Tulane University and an EP from Singularity University. ## Sep Kamvar - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Internet, Software, Blockchain Sep Kamvar is a consulting professor of Computational Mathematics at Stanford University. His research focuses on social computing and information management. From 2003 to 2007, Sep was the engineering lead of personalization at Google. Prior to Google, he was co-founder and CEO of Kaltix, a personalized search company that was acquired byGoogle in 2003. Sep is the author of two books and over 40 technical publications and patents in the fields of search and social computing. He is on the technical advisory boards of several companies, including Etsy, NextBio, and SimplyHired. His artwork has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and the National Museum of Contempary Art in Athens. ## Peter Stroeve - Type: Angel - Location: Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: FinTech, Cryptocurrency, Human Resources Peter Stroeve is a Partner at Evolution Ventures. ## Carolina Garcia - Type: Angel - Location: Polanco, Distrito Federal, Mexico - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Restaurants, Food Delivery Carolina Garcia is the Co-Founder and Chief Revenue Officer of Chiper. ## Caterine Castillo Ceballos - Type: Angel - Location: Bogotá, Distrito Especial, Colombia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: FinTech, Payments, Financial Services 10+ years of experience in Fintech, consulting, and entrepreneurial ventures. Before joining Neivor She held positions as Country Manager at InComm, Chief Growth Officer at Movii, and Global Chief Product Officer at NovoPayment Inc Business administrator with an MBA from Carleton University in Canada and studies at Columbia Business School. She aforward-looking initiator, energetic and decisive leader ## Martin Schrimpff - Type: Angel - Location: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, SaaS Martin currently works as the co-founder and CEO of Kocomo. He used to worked for PayU as founder and head of global sales. ## Oscar Sarria Guerrero - Type: Angel - Location: Bogotá, Distrito Especial, Colombia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: FinTech, Payments, Financial Services Entrepeneur, industrial Engineer, co-founder and currently COO at Chiper. I've worked in the mass consumer sector and digital projects management with an emphasis on strategy, design, and development. I am passionate about enhancing consumer’s experience and generating value for society through technology. ## Sujay Tyle - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, B2B Sujay is the 26-year old CEO and Co-Founder of Frontier Car Group (FCG), a Berlin-based, emerging markets-focused automotive marketplace. Sujay co-founded the business at the age of 23. FCG has now raised $575M+ from Naspers, Balderton, and TPG Growth. Prior, Sujay was a partner at Kingsway Capital, a London-based emerging-markets focused fund.Sujay was on the founding team of Hired.com (a talent marketplace) as its COO, which now operates in Australia, Europe, and the US. Before Hired, Sujay entered Harvard at age 15, before leaving with a Thiel Fellowship. Sujay was named one of Forbes’ 30 under 30 and one of Goldman Sachs’ top 100 intriguing entrepreneurs in 2016 and 2018. ## Emlyn Scott - Type: Angel - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning Emlyn has spent more than 30 years navigating the complex landscapes of finance, financial markets and technology as a founder, public company CEO, angel investor, VC investor and fund manager. He's had the opportunity to make over 70 venture capital investments in innovative companies like Nutromics, DataRobot, Calm App, Cerebras Systems,Skylark Labs, Zainar, and Kami, and a similar number personally as an angel. He is a founder of OpenMarkets Group, one of Australia's largest online brokers. He was former CEO of the National Stock Exchange of Australia, Australia’s second largest listing stock exchange, for four and a half years. Prior to that he was Head of Business Development at LCH.Clearnet for equities and CFDs in London for nine years, the world’s largest independent clearing house. He has four finance related degrees: - Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) - Masters Business Administration (MBA) - Graduate Diploma in Applied Finance and Investment (GDAFI) - Bachelor of Economics (BEc) ## Sebastian Delgado - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, FinTech Sebastian Delgado Cofounder at Fei Protocol ## Gerry Giacoman Colyer - Type: Angel - Location: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: FinTech, Software, Financial Services Business strategist and product guy oriented towards growth and finance. At my core, I'm a liberal arts grad who thought about going into public service, but then fell in love with the potential for technology-driven companies to make our lives better. ## Chris Sang - Type: Angel - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, SaaS Venture Capitalist, Managing Partner, Chief Technology Officer ## Man Hei Lou - Type: Angel - Location: Bogotá, Distrito Especial, Colombia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: B2B, E-Commerce Man Hei Lou is the Co-Founder at Treinta ## Saurabh Gupta - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series C - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services Saurabh Gupta is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner at DST Global. ## Jose Jair Bonilla - Type: Angel - Location: Bogotá, Distrito Especial, Colombia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: B2B, Energy, Cooking Jose Jair Bonilla is the Co-Founder and CEO of Chiper. ## Simon Borrero - Type: Angel - Location: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Marketplace Simón Borrero is a Co-Founder & CEO at Rappi. He attended MIT Sloan School of Management. ## Blake Irving - Type: Angel - Location: San Luis Obispo, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: FinTech, Finance, Cryptocurrency In January of 2013 Blake Irving joined back-office administration and peer/community support.Prior to Go Daddy, Mr. Irving was EVP and Chief Product Officer at Before Yahoo!, Mr. Irving spent 15 years at Other accomplishments at Microsoft include: • Launching the first version of in-house advertising system (ad-expert), sponsored IAB ad standards and enabled growth of Microsoft advertising revenue to $1.3 billion.• Developing and launching MSN Messenger, surpassing AOL, ICQ, and Yahoo in growth rate; later becoming the market leader with more than 300 million users and more than 70% global share. • Integrating Hotmail into MSN, managing growth and ensuring a re-architecture of the service to manage growth. (Messenger growth from 0 to 18 million users and Hotmail growth from 7 million to 290 million users).Mr. Irving started his career in 1981 at Xerox. He has been at the forefront of innovation, having been involved in numerous products and services that are now staples of the internet, including typography, communications on the personal computer, subscription services and back-end online advertising. From 2009 to 2010, he was a professor in the MBA program at Pepperdine University. Mr. Irving is a graduate of San Diego State and received an MBA degree from Pepperdine University. He currently resides in San Luis Obispo, CA. ## Jeff Carter - Type: Angel - Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Apps, FinTech, Internet Jeff Carter ## Burak Buyukdemir - Type: Angel - Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: B2B, SaaS, Bitcoin Burak Buyukdemir is the founder at Etohum. ## Enrique Villamarin Lafaurie - Type: Angel - Location: Bogotá, Distrito Especial, Colombia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: B2B, Beauty, FinTech Enrique Villamarin Lafaurie is the Co-Founder and CEO at TUL.